Relief Hill is situated on the
South Yuba River about three miles east of North Bloomfield. Captain
Monroe, J. K. Reed, Burnham, Tuttle an some others located here as early as 1853
and engaged in mining. By 1856 the settlement had attained a population of
seventy five people and rejoiced in one store, two salons, one butcher shop, two
boarding houses, one blacksmith shop and several dwellings. The town
steadily increased in size and importance until 1858, at which time it contained
one hundred voters. It then began to decline very speedily; but in 1862 it
was revived and remained a thriving camp for a number of years. It has now
(1880), a population of some seventy five souls. Robert Moore and William
R. Williams, two of the town's oldest residents are still living here.

Text taken from: History of
Nevada County California; Thompson and West, 1880